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Commonground posting on her website and on FluTrackers has several reports this morning on the first H5N1 fatality out of Vietnam for the year. The case involves a 38-year-old woman from Tien Giang Province who died on Feb 23rd.
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Confirmed the first case of death due to influenza A (H5N1) in 2010
Director of Department of Preventive Health and Environment
(Ministry of Health) Nguyen Huy Nga has confirmed a female patient, 38 years old, residing in An Thai Trung commune, Cai Be district, Tien Giang province died from influenza A ( H5N1). This is the first case of death due to influenza A (H5N1) in 2010.
Patients with disease onset date of February 13, had own treatment at home and to commune health treatment but did not help. As of February 21, patients more tired, chest pain, difficulty breathing, was taken to the treatment at the Hospital Sa Dec, Dong Thap province. Here, the patient was diagnosed: Pneumonia due to severe virus - severe shock infection. Although the resuscitation, treatment of positive, but the evolutions severe disease, patients die on February 23 at 09h00.
Epidemiological investigation showed that patients with a history of slaughtering and processing aquatic birds sick. On February 23, Pasteur Institute Ho. Ho Chi Minh answered test results positive for influenza A virus (H5N1). So this is the first fatality due to influenza A (H5N1) in 2010.
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